Re: New hardware thoughts

Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>>
>>> They don't randomly change the controllers under the same name. If you
>>> order a PERC4e/Si controller you will get the same controller every
>>> time.
>>
>> Actually Vivek this isn't true. Yes the hardware will likely be the
>> same, but the firmware rev will likely be different and I have seen
>> firmware make an incredible difference for them.
>
> Fair enough... but you don't expect LSI to never update their firmware
> either, I suspect...

True, but I have *never* had to update the firmware of the LSI (which
was my actual point :))

> Like I said, for some configurations they're great! Finding those
> configs is difficult.

Agreed.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
>

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